Posted 30 April 2014

Conception II demo lands on PS Vita today, watch new trailer

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When you woke up this morning, did you think to yourself “I’ve got to go save the world today with my army of magical Star Children?” It’s understandable if you didn’t, but even if you did, we’ve got you covered with the launch of the Conception II demo for PS Vita! That’s right, you can get a sample of the unique combat positioning system, making Star Children and getting introduced to some of the game’s seven heroines that will help you save the world.

Conception II has a surprising amount of combat depth – from choosing the composition of the nine star children you can bring into battle to deciding which classes to make with certain heroines to maximise their stats.

The best part? Your progress will transfer over to the full game, and we’ve even got a reward for those who do. When you unlock the full game and transfer your save over, players will receive a set of Matroyshkas, the nesting dolls the game uses as vessels for Star Children – each one providing a critical stat boost. And you’ll want to hurry. The full game will be out in Europe on 14th May!

@John HardinCorrect me if I’m wrong… but isn’t retail version in USA costs 40$? and even better 40$ Canadian Dollars in Canada…?

For me… it is 60% more expensive than boxed version from canadian store…. are you kidding us? It is like spitting in our face! They have great sale right now for all atlus games, they have cheaper games, they have boxed version, they have things much earlier than we…. IT IS NOT FAIR.

I know that you won’t answer… I know that it is not your fault… and I’m not blaming you, you are just worker…. but it doesn’t feel right!

I was really looking forward to Conception II, but the decision to make it a digital only release in Europe forced me to order it from the USA where the game not only had a retail release but I got a free soundtrack CD & special packaging too with my copy of the game.

ATLUS, I absolutely love your games, but it is a big letdown seeing how you treat european customers…

I second this. I’m not even going to wait for news on a European Persona 5 release, just going to import from America. I supported European releases of Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 Arena and Dragons Crown but the waiting around and lack of communication to European customers (Shin Megami Tensei IV anyone?) get’s a bit tedious.

What the hell is this?! Why are we always treated like second-class customers?! I’m fed up seeing great Atlus sales for USA only…. and now this!? It is not even funny! I don’t like buying games from USA! Why? Because it creates illussion that USA is the most important market! It is NOT! It is obvious that you will sell in USA more copies of games if you sale it: A. cheaper than in EU (Europeans import games) B. A lot earlier (USA got even demo a LOT earlier) C. If some moron (excuse me for harsh words! but that’s gigantic let down) decide to ignore European customers and make only digital version…

I was waiting for Conception! But now… most probably I will boycott it. I WANT TO PLAY IT! But you guys are forcing me and probably many more players to show you ours middle fingers…

No dual audio, right? Then no buy. XSEED, Nintendo, Aksys and Sega include dual audio in their games and even Squeenix did have it as DLC for one of Lightning’s games. But the company known for a game series about being a Japanese high schooler STILL won’t do it? That’s just silly

Can you guys please announce ahead of time if you are going to finally publish outside of JP/U.S. I just imported this literally 1 ago. I prefer buying a digital or at least European copy so i get access to dlc.

Answering only those pleasant posts in my humble opinion is even worse than not answering at all. Mr Hardin… how can we even feel about it? We don’t exist for you, you don’t even try to answer us… I know that it was not your decision to ignore European market, it is not you who set those prices… non of it is your fault and we all know it! But ignoring us also can hurt… no words like “sorry it is not up to us”… nothing… just like we are not even worth replying…

We are really second-class customers to you guys… no sales, no good retail versions, no simultaneous premiere with USA, no response, no nothing. I’m not even angry any more, I’m just sad.

@John Hardin1. Mr Hardin thank you very much for your reply! I really appreciate it! I really do!

2. It is not matter of “fluctuations of currency exchange rates” it is matter of how European customers needs to pay more for less. 40 Dollars taking current exchange rate is only 28 Euro and 23 British Pounds. For guys like me who lives in country that is not using Euro yet it will be even worse. Like I said before for me it will be 60% more than canadian price and little less for dollar price! And we are not even earning as much money as you guys… but that’s not the case here. And theoretically Atlus would earn exactly the same money because 23 euro value = 40 dollars.

3. Another thing is that Atlus thinks that retail boxed version worth is the same as digital one… Again it is not true. Physical version is always more expensive than digital one. Even box has its value. I love boxed versions, I know that I can collect them and use them however I want… And with digital version I feel ...

@John Hardin1. Mr Hardin thank you very much for your reply! I really appreciate it! I really do!

2. It is not matter of “fluctuations of currency exchange rates” it is matter of how European customers needs to pay more for less. 40 Dollars taking current exchange rate is only 28 Euro and 23 British Pounds. For guys like me who lives in country that is not using Euro yet it will be even worse. Like I said before for me it will be 60% more than canadian price and little less for dollar price! And we are not even earning as much money as you guys… but that’s not the case here. And theoretically Atlus would earn exactly the same money because 23 euro value = 40 dollars.

3. Another thing is that Atlus thinks that retail boxed version worth is the same as digital one… Again it is not true. Physical version is always more expensive than digital one. Even box has its value. I love boxed versions, I know that I can collect them and use them however I want… And with digital version I feel like I’m only using game not owning. It would be unfair even with 40 dollars = 40 euro, but we are not paying for the same product! We are paying for something that is considered as inferior to boxed version.

4. Even if there will be free DLC such as costumes it won’t mean that real value of non existing digital version will be higher than boxed version.

5. The only alternative is buying from USA/Canada… and you probably won’t say it but Atlus hopes that we will do so. But that’s no long term solution for us. We will sustain that illusion that American Market is the biggest and the most important. And it isn’t! You know even in stores in my country I have hard time finding EU version of games. All shops import games from USA, even on british Amazon most of version are from USA, that’s how complicated and hard our situation is. If I decide to buy from USA we will be treated forever as second-rate customers.

6. I have Persona 3, Persona FES, Persona 4, Digital Devil Saga 1, Digital Devil Saga 2, Catherine, Dragon’s Quest and many more Atlus games. Even if I want I can’t get some games due to complicated situation with rights to older titles, I can’t buy for example Odin Sphere on PSN. But still I am fan of Atlus games :/ and that’s why it hurts that we are not as important as americans customers.

1) You can always reach me on twitter, @johnlhardin. I try and answer all the questions I get2) A lot of that is still out of our hands.3+4) We know the value of a retail box, and unfortunately it just wasn’t feasible for Conception II in Europe.5) Absolutely false. We have no ulterior motive to drive customers to import games from other territories.6) I know it stings. But you’re right – there are a lot of complicated situations out there for a lot of titles. It’s unfortunate, and we’re working on addressing these issues for future titles.7) anytime.

Atlus has never cared for the european market their early released games were done by other companies and now they force us 2 buy digital i sure as hell am not buying it i would have if it was a physical release and had japanese dub. another thing ATLUS ignores it’s fans in the heavily requested japanese dub for game.

so don’t pretend like you care just so you can have our money. cause that is all you care about with your fans.

This game is the uncensored version right as PEGI rate it PEGI-16 spike chunsoft are another fab dev I enjoy the import of virture last reward working though dangan ropa trigger happy havoc.

However I’m more sit on the fence to get the censored version of monster monpirce or uncersored of it I may not get it at all frankly it is a joke I seen more risky cards on another card game on IOS.

Before I get at by ppl I saw what was uncensored on South Park the stick of truth it perfect alright for a 8 year old boy (CENSORED) little gal getting abortion for laughs.

But you may say it only cartoon so true, yes the cards are cartoon too on MM. But that not anger me but the guilt trip by president of IFI. Concerption2 I’m getting if it not censored yes another risky game with cartoon gals.

I think you guys should consider pricing this lower than one normally would in Europe for digital game and rather get the extra cha-ching from DLC, it is digital only and I fear that with 40€ price tag many gamers will rather import much cheaper version from US/Canada than buy it from EU PS store.

I’ve read mixed reviews about this, so I’m glad you’re posting a demo so we can get our teeth into it before we commit to buy. Reviews are one thing, but actually getting to play it is another.

One question I would be grateful for an answer to actually doesn’t relate to this release, but as a die hard Persona fan, with every game I can get my hands on, I would love to acquire the final game in the collection. The US PSN store has had access to the PSOne classic version of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment since February 2013. Is there any chance that we can get this on the EU PSN store – you managed to put the import copy of P3: FES up there recently, so it would really be appreciated by fans if you could do the same for the second half of P2 as well.

Another game i will have to buy using my US PSN ID, starting to get sick of having to fund that bloody US account. Bought Child of Light on the EU PSN for $19.95 AUD when the US was selling it for $14.95. Could have saved myself $4 AUD to put into DLC’s or avatars etc.

The game might be fun, but I just couldn’t get over that terrible English voice acting. However I wouldn’t buy it anyway, since I don’t buy digital games, when there’s a physical version available in another region. Good thing that Vita is not region locked, or us, European customers would be stuck with those inferior products forced on us by American publishers, like Atlus NA.

Thanks Atlus! I hope you will continue to release more games in the EU region yourselves from now on. NISA and other companies do an okay job, but the sooner we can get releases close to the US dates, I’ll be happy. I understand people’s frustrations with a lack of physical release, but I’m just so glad that I get to play an EU region version of this game at all.

I’m playing the demo right now. It’s brilliant. But what sort of Star God demands that his Disciples/baby-factories all be between the ages of 16 and 18!?

I’m loving Atlus now from being someone who didn’t know anything about the Persona franchise and so now am a fan and thoroughly enjoyed the Demo of Conception 2 and I have to say the Vita version is a vast improvement over the 3DS demo. So now I can’t wait until this is out.

Well, I am not sure what’s going on. I read something about no physical box, only digital. And some pricing differences.What about the content? Has anything been left out of the EU version? I am also a little confused about the age rating. Not that it matters to me since I am 19 now, hehehe. I got a mail saying that it was 16 but the official website says it’s 17+. I know it’s not a big difference but I am scared of censoring of blood or whatever there is going to happen. I have to admit that I did not watch the trailer because I was afraid of spoiling anything for myself.

Glad that they decided to give an EU release date within a reasonable time frame and a demo, but digital only is really killing me here. Hopefully one day EU will get more physical releases with the upcoming games being localized.

well i will be buying it, sadly people need to realise these type of games are a niche title ands its not really worth atlus doing a physical copy(along with them having no branch in europe). people should be happy that we are getting stuff like this at all in europe, not to long ago we wouldn’t. don’t come moaning when we don’t any games like this released and we will all have to go back to importing. steam heard it about 1.2-1.4gb. just hoping its reasonable price like ragnarok odyssey ace. if its around £30 i will wait a little as a lot coming out this month, bound by flame,watchdogs, wolfenstein ,borderlands 2 vita, and mind zero.

And why should we be happy if we get less and pay more? Like I said many times before buying from canadian store day 1 edition is 60% cheaper than buying digital version in European PSN. Atlus is now part of SEGA so publishing game in Europe shouldn’t be as big problem as they are trying to tell us.

The thing is Atlus recently is doing many stupid things like providing 100k of dollars for game that failed miserably on kickstarter, or deciding to let NISa publish game in Europe 3 or 4 months after American release (when most of Europeans already bought it from USA). Decision about not releasing game in Europe and saying that we will have to pay exactly the same amount of cash is form of another stupid ill-advised decision.

If they are afraid of failure on European market than let us pre-order game, they would know exactly how many copies of game they should release for European market. But for Conception II it is too late to do so because ALL of shops in my country already placed an ...

And why should we be happy if we get less and pay more? Like I said many times before buying from canadian store day 1 edition is 60% cheaper than buying digital version in European PSN. Atlus is now part of SEGA so publishing game in Europe shouldn’t be as big problem as they are trying to tell us.

The thing is Atlus recently is doing many stupid things like providing 100k of dollars for game that failed miserably on kickstarter, or deciding to let NISa publish game in Europe 3 or 4 months after American release (when most of Europeans already bought it from USA). Decision about not releasing game in Europe and saying that we will have to pay exactly the same amount of cash is form of another stupid ill-advised decision.

If they are afraid of failure on European market than let us pre-order game, they would know exactly how many copies of game they should release for European market. But for Conception II it is too late to do so because ALL of shops in my country already placed an order for large amount of game from Canada/America. And like I said many times before there isn’t little information that they are going to sell american version (that’s why I believed up to this news that we will also get physical release). It is way too late for that or for any kind of decision! Like it was too late to release Persona 4G in physical version for European market.

Sorry to say, but in my eyes this is huge blunder! And if they are going to repeat doing things like this they can say goodbye to European customers. I’m going to say it: one more mistake and I’m not going to buy any of Atlus games (be it Persona 5 or any other). If they don’t respect us, than we won’t respect them.

agree archacus, just saying we should be happy to be getting any type of release for these games even if its is digital, last few games i have imported have been hit by customs so with 20 % tax and royal mail handling fee of £8 they turned out to be more expensive than if i had gotten them from UK. have to agree on pricing if they are going to make them digital price should be around £20-25 not £30 + which i have a feeling this will be, just greed on atlus part, look at ragnarok odyssey ace that was around £23 on psn store, so why cant this game be same price.